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Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. — Robert Duvall

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force. — Ron Paul

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it. — Sun Tzu

No one leads an army to war, unless they have first served in battle — Gaiven Clairmont

Idea is a software for the army and nation. — Toba Beta

I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands. — Anton Chekhov

Education safeguards liberty better than a standing army. — Edward Everett

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war. — J. F. C. Fuller

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach. — Sun Tzu

I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods. — Chad Coleman

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back. — Geoff Davis

I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine. — David Bellavia

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast. — Silius Italicus

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. — Bill Griffith

Not without an army of ninjas behind me am I letting you into my house -Dice (Swoon) — Nina Malkin

Too many kings can ruin an army — Homer

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully. — Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is not given - it is taken. — Subhas Chandra Bose

I would rather have an army of deer commanded by a lion than an army of lions commanded by a deer!" Here — Steven Pressfield

Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed. — Sun Tzu

All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune. — Jean Racine

Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army! — Kim Jong Il

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist. — Kola Boof

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Who gave you a gun?'
'The army.'
'Why?'
'That's what the army does, Simon. — A. Ashley Straker

You can become what you want. You have an army of angels behind you. — Sue Fitzmaurice

Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway? — John Waters

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in. — Sebastian Junger

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army — Joseph Stalin

The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved. — Katherine Paterson

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots. — Juliet Stevenson

We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all. — John Lennon

People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things. — Richard A. Kidd

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire. — Emile De Girardin

Discipline is the soul of an army. — George Washington

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool. — James Blunt

still under siege, but the Red Army had regained two-thirds of — Susan Butler

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The mighty army of time is without equal. — Jon Jones

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious. — Laozi

Making the world safe for hypocrisy. — Thomas Wolfe

So, your plan is to murder a superior enemy army," said Tovar, "and then outrun the wind. I'm glad it's so simple. — Dan Wells

There's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it? — Eddie Izzard

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give. — Alexander The Great

A great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of society. — J. Stalin

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general. — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state. — Voltaire

Single-minded, determined, and intelligent organizational talent probably can create an effective army from any group of men. — Trevor N. Dupuy

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? — Bill Watterson

It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up. — Subhas Chandra Bose

By the war's end, some 180,000 blacks had served in the Union Army - over one fifth of the nation's adult male black population under age forty-five. — Eric Foner

The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested. — Christopher Cockerell

How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status? — John Scalzi

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. — James Wolfe

An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas. — Czeslaw Milosz

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month. — William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do. — Simon Raven

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it. — Tim O'Brien

There is an army of waiters in this world. — Henry Ward Beecher

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas. — Henry Ward Beecher

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army. — Allan Nevins

You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it. — Mignon McLaughlin

Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines. — Jon Ronson

In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army. — Smedley D. Butler

Do you have anyone in mind, Hugo?" the duke asked. "Not really." Hugo sighed. "I have an army of female cousins and aunts who would be only too — Mary Balogh

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army. — Mark Twain

The army teaches boys to think like men. — Elvis Presley

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises. — Oliver Stone

An army, I learned in time, needs a head. It needs one man to lead it, but give an army two leaders and you halve its strength. — Bernard Cornwell

Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The grand army would soon be upon us, and war with all its attendant horrors."24 — John Desantis

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any. — Plato

Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint. — Susan Orlean

In a case such as this, unless an entire army is available, the safest number of men will be one. We have no army, and therefore I will go. — Nicole Sager

Why should the devil have all the best tunes? — William Booth

The Army uses the same principle, but they call them battle buddies. — Mark Owen

My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England. — Daisy Ridley

I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact. — Adrian McKinty

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there. — Abraham Lincoln

I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets. — Lou Reed

The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken! — Konstantin Rokossovsky

Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands. — Adela Of Normandy

Let's all go over there. She could have an army of psycho girl ninjas hiding in that shack of hers. — James Dashner

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered. — Grover Cleveland

Sounds like the rival is a good soldier, Cono said. Like the Russians say, a bad soldier is one who doesn't try to become a general. — Victor Robert Lee

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it. — John Frederick Maurice

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army. — Wilhelm II

Facing one of my own species terrified me far more than fighting an army of blood spitting bugs. — Pam Godwin

The smile he gave her was wistful, just a little lift to his mouth. "You are a fighter."
""Yes. Always. And sometimes I'm a whole army. — J.R. Ward

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler? — Josephine Baker

Military Wives - Sacrificing Months of Sex for the Country. — Aditi Mathur Kumar

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. — Winston Churchill

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better. — Winston Churchill

And the Austrian army, awfully arrayed, boldly, by battery, besieged Belgrade. — Patrick Leigh Fermor

Slay Goliath and the army behind him scatters. — Matshona Dhliwayo